This is New York now. →
thenewyork-now.jit.su
New York now is a “real-time visualization tool displaying all the photos as they happen within New York on Instagram.” View the other featured cities here.
*BA
August 2012
2 posts
“I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.”
—
via Sam Stefan
July 2012
6 posts
“There’s no secret. All one needs is intellectual curiosity.”
—Paul Giambarba
What Bogusky's Up To Now →
mademovement.com
Some former CP+B heads have started a made in the US marketing agency & flash sale site. Check out their link for some behind-the-scenes on the why, how and what.
*EV
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
—Henry Ford
June 2012
14 posts
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“You’re only going to win if you have better ideas, better persuasion, and better ability to organize people.”
—Marvin Ammori
Pointer Pointer →
pointerpointer.com
Is this cool or creepy? It might be 60/40.
Play
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Great leaders in any generation have always helped people understand why.”
—Jim Collins
May 2012
17 posts
You Call That Innovation? →
online.wsj.com
Companies Love To Say They Innovate, But The Term Has Begun To Lose Meaning.
*AT
Creative Life = Healthy Life →
cnn.com
Creativity is the path forward on so many different levels.
“Live your life and forget your age.”
—Norman Vincent Peale
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
—William Arthur Ward
“There is no greater high than discovery.”
—E.O. Wilson
“Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder — they aren’t traits of youth. They’re traits of learning.”
—
Benjamin Salka — CEO of Story Pirates
via swissmiss (*BA)
2012 Logo Trends →
logolounge.com
I think it is interesting that most of these trends include many multiplied colors, gradients and even real imagery. I like that designers are pushing beyond traditional barriers that printing reproduction could cause and creating some cool designs.
(*RW)
April 2012
11 posts
“Instead of being fastest around the tracks everybody knows, creative people move adaptively through wildernesses nobody knows.”
—
David Brooks, New York Times Columnist, highlights some outstanding points about the relationship between creativity and competition.
“Think left and think right
and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up
if only you try!” —
and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up
if only you try!” —
Dr. Suess - “Oh the Thinks You Can Think”, 1975
(*EV)
John Cleese on Creativity →
brainpickings.org
Interesting article and videos featuring John Cleese’s thoughts on how we can facilitate creativity in our daily lives.
(*EV)
9 Bold Predictions for the Digital World of 2020 →
mashable.com
Do you daydream about the future? We thought so. But rather than bore you with our frivolous wish lists (which are mostly comprised of hoverboards and self-lacing shoes), we have asked nine leading futurists to share their visions of the digital world of 2020.
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“Wake up curious. And wake up determined to get an answer.”
—
via Oprah’s Master Class (*BA)
